Geodesy
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Why the mapped width of an earthquake zone is far wider than the fault that causes it
How satellite altimetry measures the height of the ocean to the centimetre
How accurate is a phone GPS fix in a canyon of glass towers
UTM zones vs latitudes and longitudes: why surveyors work in metres instead of degrees
How a meridian is marked and resurveyed on the ground with geodetic monuments
Why the same coordinates land in different places on WGS84 and NAD83
How to keep a latitude column from turning into dates and scientific notation in a spreadsheet
Changing a map datum can shift every coordinate by hundreds of metres
How does a GNSS receiver work out your position from satellites that only broadcast time?
Why three satellites are not enough to fix your position on the ground
Decimal degrees vs degrees minutes seconds: which format surveyors and hikers each prefer
How many decimal places in a coordinate actually matter before the extra digits are noise
How is area computed on a curved Earth without distorting the total
Why a country's land area changes depending on who measured it
A degree of longitude shrinks toward the poles while a degree of latitude stays the same
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